Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
That's a chapter, the last chapter of the 20th, 20th, the 21st century that most of us would rather forget. The last… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The car was the iPhone of the 20th century. Kids these days don't have to drive anymore. They just go there virtually. — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
So the result was that as one approached a political convention for most of the 19th century and for most of the… — Michael Beschloss Copy Share Image
Just as many golfers feel a kinship with Ben Hogan or Bobby Jones after studying their lives, such is the closeness I… — Jim Nantz Copy Share Image
I am a 20th century escaped slave. Because of government persecution, I was left with no other choice than to flee from… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
Xenophobia looks like becoming the mass ideology of the 20th-century fin-de-siecle. — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
[Phil wood] put on some [Igor] Stravinsky and say to follow the score, tell me to play me the opening to the… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
As a form of escapism, yearning for the 20th century is understandable, but in practice it would be horrible - sort of… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
The number of those identifying as Aborigine in Tasmania rapidly rose in the late 20th century. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Einstein believed deeply that science should transcend national and ethnic divisions. But he watched physicists and chemists become the purveyors of weapons… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
The record of poetry in the 20th century isn't all that great anyway. Most of the poets who weren't fascists were Stalinists. — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“Memory is the mother of the muses, prototype Artist. As a rule picks and highlights what is important, omitting what is accidental… — Frank Harris Copy Share Image
I like being connected to young people, or younger people who are trying to figure out the language of film, bringing theorists… — Matthew Porterfield Copy Share Image
Not only did she [Marilyn Monroe] master her own image, create it and ultimately control it, she was the subject of many… — Gail Levin Copy Share Image
“Fatally, the term 'barbarian' is the password that opens up the archives of the twentieth century. It refers to the despiser of… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
George W. Bush, 43rd president of the United States, became the first incumbent president to increase his majority in both the Senate… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
If the 20th century was marked by travel - planes in flight - then the events of 9/11 ushered in the age… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
The United Nations is actually a mid-20th century institution and much weaker than it was when it was originally created, because governments… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
I am into drones and one chord freak outs and the paintings I am into are more minimal things the New York… — Will Sergeant Copy Share Image
The same technology transforming our lives can solve the greatest problem of the 20th century. A security shield can one day render… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The Gospel that worked in the 20th Century may not work in the 21st Century. The reason is because it is truncated.… — Peter Robinson Copy Share Image
The Cold War was really the great struggle of the 20th Century and it shaped American political life from top to bottom. — Jeff Sharlet Copy Share Image
The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. Like faxes,… — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
This year marks 20 years since the Rwandan genocide -- the world's greatest humanitarian tragedy of the late 20th century. The international… — Park Geun-hye Copy Share Image